Meet the MOBA bringing the genre back to its RTS roots

Publisher Bandai Namco has a name in the multiplayer community with games like SoulCalibur and Tekken , but compared to its rivals, the company hasn't had an enduring title in the continuously growing esports arena. Instead of giving up, though, it's trying a different tack: building a new MOBA. The game has been in development for about three years, but in a market that already feels crowded with League of Legends and Dota 2, why would a developer want to make another MOBA? Speaking with developer's studio director, Zoltan Zsuffa, he said, "Basically, Supernova is different in many ways. It has the fundamental MOBA gameplay terms like heroes and lanes and things like that.

Dark Souls Publisher Creates an RTS/MOBA Hybrid in Supernova

Supernova is a 3D sci-fi themed MOBA with a unique cast of characters from mechs, to humanoids, to aliens. Players can spend in-game currency on upgrading their creeps, adding new spawns, and more. This adds a new element of strategy to the genre and will require players to adapt their own creeps to counter their opponents while still battling it out in traditional MOBA fashion. Full Review. System Requirements.

Supernova is a super complex game. Which is understandable, because combining the strategic depth of the real-time strategy and MOBA genres is bound to complicate things. But when I was staring at the layers of choice found in the pre-match menu, I honestly wasn't sure. In the wake of The International 5 , the world's largest esports tournament, it can be easy to forget that the MOBA genre grew entirely from a Warcraft 3 mod.